Chapter 1: The Eye-Catching Wedding

  "Who are you?" Ning Fan's tone was slightly irritated, he couldn't tell who the woman on the phone was, but he could sense her gloating tone.

  "I said it back then, there won't be a good outcome between you two." The woman still didn't reveal her own identity.

  But at this moment, Ning Fan suddenly understood, it was her, and said that the voice seemed a bit familiar.

  "Tong Yao, you're just coming now to gloat over my misfortune. Don't you think it's a bit too late?" Ning Fang said with an unpleasant tone.

  The woman on the other end of the phone was called Tong Yao, who was Tongtong's older sister, but they were half-sisters with different mothers. Ning Fan wasn't familiar with Tong Yao and had only met her a few times, each time ending in unpleasantness. Tongtong rarely mentioned his sister to him, and all he knew for sure was that the relationship between Tong Yao and Tong Hua was not good.

  "It's never too late for schadenfreude." Tong Yao said slowly and calmly, "I knew you two broke up, I'm glad."

  "Childish, if there's nothing else, I'll hang up the phone." Ning Fan was in a bad mood. Although it had been more than a week, whenever he thought of Tiantian, his heart still ached.

  "Ning Fan, I don't have the leisure to come and gloat at your misfortune." Tong Yao hummed softly, "I'm here to interview you."

  "I'm not interested in giving an interview, and I'm even less interested in giving one to you!" Ning Fan said gruffly, then hung up the phone.

  The phone rang again immediately, still the same number.

  Ning Fan directly pressed the reject button, but in less than ten seconds, the ringing sound started again.

  Ning Fan couldn't bear it anymore, picked up the phone and directly yelled at the other end: "Are you done yet?"

  "I just want to tell you one thing, whether or not you accept the interview, I will write a report. If you don't cooperate, then don't blame me for writing nonsense!" Tong Yao said at lightning speed.

  "Children's nursery rhymes, are you a journalist like this?" Ning Fan was somewhat annoyed. "If you dare to spout nonsense, I'll sue you!"

  "I certainly won't speak nonsense, I will write facts." Tong Yao had a light and casual expression, "But what kind of facts I'll write is hard to say, maybe I'll even write about your love story or something. Don't forget, I'm very familiar with your affairs."

  "You're absolutely absurd!" Ning Fang was indeed furious, but also somewhat helpless, because he knew that Tong Yao's words were true. If she really wrote like this, he would have no way to refute her.

  "I'm waiting for you at Kexin Coffee Shop." Tong Yao hung up the phone as soon as she finished saying that.

  Ning Fan almost smashed his phone directly, but in the end he endured it and after saying hello to Li Feng, he left the training base and headed to Ke Xin Coffee Shop.

  Although he was reluctant in his heart, he still had to go and get rid of the woman.

  Ke Xin Coffee Shop is about a thousand meters away from the police station. Ning Fan had been there several times before. The boss was a woman with the character "heart" in her name, and everyone called her Heart Sister.

  Xin Jie is a pretty woman in her thirties, always single, with rumors that she has been kept by someone, but Ning Fan hasn't confirmed the truth of this rumor. Anyway, it's none of his business, he just knows that the coffee here isn't bad.

  The business of the coffee shop was ordinary. When Ning Fan walked into the coffee shop, he found that there was only one customer here, and Ning Fan recognized her at a glance.

  That was Tong Yao, a beautiful but not elegant woman. Several years ago, Ning Fan's impression of Tong Yao was like this, and now, Tong Yao still gave him the same impression.

  Looking at Tong Yao's pretty face, Ning Fan had a moment of distraction. That face made him unconsciously think of another person. Although they didn't have the same mother, Tong Yao and her sister Tong Hua still shared some similarities, which obviously came from their father's genes.

  In fact, Tong Yao is very beautiful. In her university days at Hai Cheng University, Tong Yao was recognized as the number one beauty among the top ten beauties of the school. However, Tong Hua, who was a year younger than Tong Yao, did not make it to the list of beauties. Nevertheless, Ning Fan believed that if men were given a choice between Tong Yao and Tong Hua, the majority would choose Tong Hua.

  Perhaps it's because of the beauty in the eyes of a lover, but Ning Fan felt that the reason he never had a good impression of Tong Yao was not because Tong Tong and Tong Yao didn't get along back then, nor was it because Tong Yao had cursed them to break up. It was because Tong Yao always gave him a feeling of lacking femininity.

  Tong Yao's face is very feminine, her figure is also very feminine, but in her bones, she doesn't seem like a woman.

  Look at her now, with that messy short hair, and that wrinkled shirt, black and yellow cow pants, plus those sports shoes that haven't been washed for who knows how long, and that canvas bag slung over her shoulder, what's feminine about her?

  "Snap!" The flash of the camera woke Ning Fan up. He came to his senses and found that Tong Yao was holding a camera, taking continuous shots of him.

  "What are you doing?" Ning Fan was rather annoyed and walked towards her.

  "Hmm, handsome face, a hint of sadness in his eyes, not bad, when the time comes, we'll use this photo for the report." Tong Yao was staring at the camera with a very satisfied expression.

  The next second, Tong Yao stuffed the camera into her bag and looked up at Ning Fan: "You came pretty quickly. Speaking of which, I owe you an apology. I used to think you were a freeloader."

  "What about now?" Ning Fan asked gruffly, sitting across from Tong Yao.

  "Now?" Tong Yao looked at Ning Fang with a strange gaze, then concluded, "Still a pretty boy!"

  For an instant, Ning Fan had the urge to beat this woman up badly.

  "Ballad, I'm here to tell you that I don't want to accept an interview!" Ning Fan said coldly, he really didn't want to chat with this woman anymore.

  "Really?" The old man smiled strangely, "Actually, I didn't expect you to really accept the interview, but I knew you'd come, of course, not because of me, but because of my little sister, right?"

  "Have you switched from being a reporter to becoming a psychologist?" Ning Fan hummed, although he didn't want to admit it, but the fact that he came here was indeed related to Tongtong. If it were another reporter who had no relation to Tongtong, even if that reporter threatened to write a messy report, he wouldn't have come.

  "I minored in psychology in college." Tong Hua didn't mind Ning Fan's sarcastic tone at all, "Are you wondering why Tong Hua wants to break up with you, but you don't dare ask her directly?"

  Ning Fan didn't say anything, he just couldn't understand why Tongtong couldn't persevere for one more day.

  "She was a flower in the greenhouse, destined to live a life without worries about food and clothing. She once liked fairy-tale-like romance, but unfortunately, when her parents were about to cut off her financial support, she compromised." Tong Yao's eyes seemed to flash with a hint of sympathy: "She is a woman who cannot bear hardship, you two are not suitable for each other. If you want some comfort, I can tell you that actually she had also briefly resisted before."

  "She never told me these things." Ning Fan said in a low voice.

  "That's because she never thought you could make a fortune!" Tong Yao said bluntly, "I came to tell you a few things: first, she and you were not suitable in the first place; second, you two have already played out your string, her marriage is already set, there's no possibility of reconciliation; third, I actually really am here to gloat over your misfortune!"

  He stood up and walked out: "I've said what I wanted to say, I'll go first, remember to pay the bill for me."

  Has the wedding date been set?

  Ning Fan had an inexplicable feeling in his heart, and he was surprised to find that at this moment, he didn't seem to have that kind of heart-wrenching sadness, although he still felt a bit uncomfortable, but it seemed to be just that.

  "Your girlfriend is very beautiful." A pleasant voice came over.

  Ning Fan raised his head and saw a beautiful young woman, who was none other than the boss of this place, Sister Xin.

  "She is not my girlfriend." Ning Fan hastily shook his head.

  "Really?" Xinxia smiled and said, "I think you two are quite a good match."

  "You must be wrong." Ning Fan shook his head, "By the way, how much was her coffee?"

  "It's on me," said Xin Jie with a gentle smile. "You're now our city's big hero."

  "Then thank you, Xin Jie." Ning Fan didn't refuse. He and Xin Jie weren't close, but they knew each other.

  "Someone wants to talk to you, I don't know if you're interested?" Xin Jie suddenly spoke up.

  "What?" Ning Fan was taken aback, this sentence was a bit abrupt, and he didn't react for a moment. Afterwards, he asked: "Who?"

  "He's inside." Xīn Jiě glanced at the resting area inside the café with her eyes, "If you're willing to see him, then after you go in, you'll know who he is."

  Ning Fan was slightly surprised, but he only hesitated for a moment before getting up and walking towards the resting area.

  Pushing open the door, Ning Fan walked in and then saw a man, a very young man who looked somewhat familiar.

  "Nice to see you again." The young man smiled slightly at Ning Fan and extended his hand, "Let's formally introduce ourselves, my name is Meng Hao."

  "It was you." Ning Fang finally remembered that the young man who claimed to be Meng Hao was actually Meng Shao, whom he had met at Hai Huang Palace that night.

  Ning Fan didn't shake hands with Meng Hao, his expression somewhat cold: "I think we don't need to know each other."

  After finishing speaking, Ning Fan turned around and prepared to leave.

  "Ning Fan, don't you want to listen to my suggestion? I think we can cooperate." Meng Hao's voice came from behind.

  "We don't share the same path, we're not fellow travelers." Ning Fan walked out and at the same time took out 100 yuan in cash and placed it on the cashier's desk. "I think I'll just pay for the coffee myself, no need to look for change."

  For Meng Hao, Ning Fan had no good feelings. At the Hai Huang Palace, although Yang Daxiong insisted on Hu Lianlian accompanying him, Meng Hao was also assisting in the chaos. Ning Fan would not mix with such a person.

  Ning Fan walked quickly out of the coffee shop. This place, he probably wouldn't come again. Those rumors about Xin Jie, now it seemed that most of them were true.

  Ning Fan drove away quickly and when he passed by the police station, Ning Fan suddenly remembered something, so he stopped the car, took out his mobile phone and dialed a number.